www.medical-image-processing.info The Resource for Medical Image Processing on the Internet
	MVE - Medical Volume Explorer OpenGL Homepage     GLScene Homepage     Cg Homepage   MVE - Medical Volume Explorer - is a visualization program for medical data. It is based on OpenGL, GLScene and on Cg shaders from NVIDIA. The program supports different 2D views (axial, coronal and sagittal), Direct Volume Rendering, Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) gradient lighting and a stereoscopic anaglyph visualization. MVE has a multi format file interface for CT, MRI, PET and SPECT data and can read DICOM, ANALYZE, BMP, GIF, JP2000, JPG, PNG, PCX, PNG, TGA and TIF files. The Volume Viewer as the main module displays 3D data directly without further conversion of the geometry like surface construction algorithms (marching cubes). The result is a natural and clear representation of the volume data. The volume object can be rotated and scaled in real-time and viewed as a stereoscopic image. MVE is divided into 4 modules: - File Viewer for selecting and opening files, - Image Viewer for 2D visualization of axial, coronal and sagittal images, - Volume Viewer for 3D visualization with "Direct Volume Rendering" of the whole volume including    very high resolution (512 x 512 x 512 voxels),    clipping volumes with any angles,    maximum intensity projection (MIP),    stereoscopic anaglyph visualization. - Information Viewer for information about DICOM and ANALYZE files. The program is free available for medial, academic, research and educational use. NEW VERSIONS OF MVE Currently I am working on a DICOM component for DELPHI programmers and new versions of MVE, a free MVE version and a professional MVE version. Unfortunatly I am not able to predict, when they will be finished, because I am involved in other projects too, and my time is limited to 24h/d. The MVE versions will include: - advanced file interface with detection and display of DICOM series, - semi automatic segmentation functions, - higher volume resolutions, - advanced lighting functions, - predefined color lookup tables, multi language support - and much more  Figures (click to enlarge) File Viewer Image Viewer Volume Viewer Information Viewer  AVI-Movies Thorax with tumor (7.1 MB) Stereoscopic (red/green) thorax with tumor (7.2 MB) Stereoscopic (red/blue) thorax with tumor (7.5 MB) Thorax (2.8 MB) Stereoscopic (red/green) thorax (2.8 MB) Stereoscopic (red/blue) thorax (2.8 MB) Thorax with changing transparency (2.8 MB)   Stereoscopic (red/green) thorax with changing transparency (2.8 MB) Stereoscopic (red/blue) thorax with changing transparency (2.8 MB)  Supported Operating Systems Currently MVE supports 32 bit WINDOWS systems with OpenGL and Cg (NVIDIAs C for graphics) support. System requirements: - Operating system: WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 2000 or WINDOWS XP. - Video graphics adapter: NVIDIA GForce FX series or higher, ATI 9700 or higher, 256 MB Video RAM. - Main memory: 512 MB RAM (better 1024 MB).  Installation Installation of MVE is easy, just start the setup program and install MVE to any directory. The program has a user friendly interface and does not need any command line options. IMPORTANT: Medical data often needs huge amounts of memory, so make sure that you have left enough space on your harddisk for: - the temp directory, - the windows directory, - the windows swapfile, - the virtual image file. Error due to to small disk space often lead to strange system behaviour and are difficult to detect. Also make sure, that you have enough virtual memory available (>= 1,024 MB).  Acknowledgements The support of Professor Dr. Rainer Köster, Dr. Hinrich Böhner and Professor Dr. Peter Goretzki is appreciated very much.
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